Exploration and practice on course teaching in plastic injection mold

Abstract

The plastic injection mold design course has strong comprehensiveness and practicality. However, most theoretical teaching are separated from practical operation in the current teaching process. The blind lecture of teachers easily leads to the cramming education phenomenon, which has low student acceptance and poor learning effect. To solve these problems, the project- driving method was applied to plastic injection mold design teaching. On the basis of the course content, the present study expounded the implementation method of project-driven teaching which divided the course teaching process into the following stages: determining the theme, executing the theme, and displaying and evaluating the project. The following were also detailed: the principles of project selection, the implementation process of the project, and the tasks of students and teachers in the implementation process, as well as the project result presentation and the evaluation criteria of the quality of student learning. The plastic injection mold design of the refrigerator thermostat knob was used as an example to discuss the application of the project-driving method. Results show that compared with traditional teaching methods, the project-driving teaching method can better improve the learning interest, self-learning ability, engineering practice ability, and innovation and teamwork of students, as well as the satisfaction of employers.